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Standard & Poor’s Adds IVRS OTC Derivatives Valuations
In line with its strategy to extend its valuations offering into the OTC derivatives area, Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations (SPSE) has entered into an agreement with Independent Valuation and Risk Services (IVRS) under which the two companies will provide their valuations to each other’s clients. To date, SPSE has provided its asset-backed securities (ABS)/mortgage-backed…
Capco Re-Engineers Outsourcing Platform as SOA Draws on Opensource, Grid and Web Services
Capco has begun a project to re-engineer the technology infrastructure supporting its provision of managed reference data services, and plans to draw on opensource and grid technologies as well as Web Services, to improve integration with its clients’ operations. The provider’s aim is to improve automation and build in greater scalability to the platform, in…
Omgeo Releases Alert Plus For Bulk SSI Upload Capability
Post-trade, pre-settlement trade management services provider Omgeo, the joint venture company of DTCC and Thomson Financial, has released and signed up the first users for Omgeo Alert Plus. This new feature set within the Omgeo Alert web based database for the maintenance and communication of standing settlement and account instructions is designed to give high…
New Head of ICMA Ltd Milne Predicts Data Aggregation Role
As a collector of data, the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) will play an important role in helping the industry deal with the increased reporting requirements, need for greater transparency and greater requirement for accurate data in a post-MiFID/Basel II European marketplace, believes the new managing director of ICMA Ltd, Kevin Milne. The changes to…
DSTi Names Tom Abraham as its New Chief Executive Officer
DST International (DSTi), provider of solutions for investment managers including a data warehouse offering that competes with products from Netik and Eagle, has hired Tom Abraham as its new chief executive officer, replacing Mike Winn, who will retire after 15 years with the organisation in spring 2007. Abraham most recently directed the strategic solutions –…
Raymond James & Associates Takes DTCC’s Scrubbed CA Data
Raymond James & Associates has signed up for DTCC’s Global Corporate Action Validation Service (GCA VS), its centralised source of corporate actions announcements for equities and fixed income instruments traded in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. The firm becomes one of the more than 20 users of GCA VS, which in 2006 provided almost 900,000…
GoldenSource Hires Greg Stockett as Chief Financial Officer
GoldenSource has appointed Greg Stockett, most recently the CFO of GlobeOp Financial Services, as its chief financial officer, replacing its outgoing CFO Harpreet Grewal.
Trio of Ex-SunGard Data Experts Offers EDM Consulting
In a reunion of ex-SunGard executives, data veterans Marc Odho and Rob Ord have joined Dale Richards to launch the LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) Consulting Group. Richards is CEO of the company, which he says is already engaged in enterprise data management assignments in both the vendor and client spaces. Odho and Ord, made redundant…
CB.Net Appoints Tim Boyce Chairman
Payments reference data specialist CB.Net has appointed Tim Boyce, formerly a non-executive director, chairman, to support its international growth. CB.Net’s former chairman Phillip Horsnall remains on the board as a non-executive director.
DSEL Picks FinArch Over GoldenSource for Positions
Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Limited (DSEL), the UK based investment banking joint venture owned by Daiwa Securities Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, has begun the implementation of the Financial Studio finance resource planning software from Financial Architects (FinArch). The implementation of the financial database is the second phase of DSEL’s far reaching project to…